Does it help to use NGEN?

Question

Is it better to use NGEN an ASP.NET application when we know it is not going to change much? Or is the JIT good enough?

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Answer 1

NGen helps startup time. For example, the Entity Framework documentation says this about the benefit of running NGen:

Empirical observations show that native images of the EF runtime assemblies can cut between 1 and 3 seconds of application startup time.

The context is just the Entity Framework assemblies. NGenning other assemblies would provide additional speedup.